Alexander John Batyi on Fri, 3 Sep 1999 08:07:13 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] RE: Path


> Global setting should go in /etc/profile and per user settings
> in $HOME/.profile while the defaults are probably
> hardcoded in /bin/login

I just found a file called login.defs.  The hardcoded PATH
in /bin/login is /bin:/usr/bin and /etc/login.defs supersedes this
with /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin for normal users (ENV_PATH) and
more for superuser (ENV_SUPATH).  /etc/profile ADDS to this by
including the existing PATH (PATH=$PATH:...) and tacking on
some more directories.


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